Hi, I'm Akshansh 👋

Senior Software Engineer  ·  Python & React  ·  D. E. Shaw

Akshansh Kumar

I build mission-critical full-stack tools for the risk team at D. E. Shaw — 5+ years turning complex, high-stakes problems into reliable, high-impact software.


At a Glance

💼 Experience 5+ years, currently at D. E. Shaw
🏆 Hackathons 2× D. E. Shaw First Prize winner
🐛 Security Google Bug Hunter Hall of Fame
🎓 Education M.Tech, BITS Pilani
📍 Location India

Skills

Python FastAPI React JavaScript Streamlit Pandas MongoDB Docker Git Linux Cypress Claude SDK


🔴 Session Replay Tool · 2024 Monitors production-critical apps and replays user sessions with video-like playback, real-time console logs, and network request data — eliminating manual bug reporting.

🤖 Knowledge-Sharing Chat Assistant · 2023 RAG + Claude SDK assistant built over the Risk Team's entire codebase and documentation. Reduced new member onboarding time by 30%.

⚡ Data Validation Framework · 2022 Automated daily monitoring and alerting for firmwide performance attribution numbers. Reduced Quant debugging time by 50%.

🧩 Custom Streamlit Components · Open Source Designed and published custom UI components to the Streamlit open-source ecosystem.


Achievements

🥇 First Prize — D. E. Shaw Firm-wide Hackathon (2024) 🥇 First Prize — D. E. Shaw QTE Hackathon (2021) 🐛 Google Bug Hunter Hall of Fame (2019) 🔵 Google Foobar Challenge (2022)


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